Title: Sociology book recommendations?
Post by: AlP on February 05, 2010, 04:31:03 AM
Post by: AlP on February 05, 2010, 04:31:03 AM
I've been reading a book about Émile Durkheim and am finding myself fascinated with sociology. There appear to be a number of college 101 sociology textbooks. Does anyone have any recommendations, textbook or otherwise?
Title: Re: Sociology book recommendations?
Post by: Whitney on February 05, 2010, 04:37:41 AM
Post by: Whitney on February 05, 2010, 04:37:41 AM
I took a sociology course on death and dying that I thought was interesting, this was our textbook:
Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Morality
http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Death ... 0195042964 (http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Death-Values-Institutions-Mortality/dp/0195042964)
Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Morality
http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Death ... 0195042964 (http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Death-Values-Institutions-Mortality/dp/0195042964)
Title: Re: Sociology book recommendations?
Post by: AlP on February 05, 2010, 04:49:06 AM
Post by: AlP on February 05, 2010, 04:49:06 AM
^ Ooh! That looks interesting. It's in my Amazon wish list. I think I'll get a book that's more general in scope first though. Thanks Whitney. 
Title: Re: Sociology book recommendations?
Post by: AlP on February 05, 2010, 04:59:09 AM
Post by: AlP on February 05, 2010, 04:59:09 AM
And on the subject of death... I think I'll get "The Letter from Death" (http://www.amazon.com/Letter-Death-Lillian-Moats/dp/0966957636/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265345475&sr=1-1) by Lillian Moats. I read another excerpt than the one on Amazon in Humanist magazine and I liked it. It appears to be a deconstruction of death. They wouldn't say that in Humanist magazine of course! I wonder whether they even noticed the post-modernist themes. 
Title: Re: Sociology book recommendations?
Post by: Sophus on March 12, 2010, 04:34:36 AM
Post by: Sophus on March 12, 2010, 04:34:36 AM
Erich Fromm. You will love him! Escape From Freedom, To Have Or To Be?, or The Art of Loving. I'm always kind of promoting him here... don't know if anyone else has read anything of his yet. But, yes, he's absolutely marvelous.